Sunday, December 28, 2014

It's
Vili here
today and in the last post for this year I'd like to present you four
projects - tags (or bookmarks), which I made for my bigger daughter and
for three friends of hers. As to be absolutely personalised, I chose
stamps that are connected to a favourite thing of every one of the
girls. Here's what I got:

The
first bookmark is for Maggie, who lately has a new love in her heart - a
little Beagle puppy. I couldn't find a stamp with this breed, so I used
Mo's Retriever, which I coloured with the typical colouration of the Beagle:

The second bookmark is for Joanna, who dreams of becoming a doctor. The closest I found was Mo's Nurse:

The next one is for my daughter. I chose Mo's Patty
for two reasons - firstly, she herself is called Patricia; and,
secondly, most of the time of her 17 years of living she has always been
not satisfied with how the things are happening:

The last tag is for Ilina, who is the biggest fan of Pugs. Happily I found Mo's Pug Love:

And that's how the backs of the tags look like:

I wish everybody one more successful 2015; one, that makes dreams come true!

Thursday, December 25, 2014

on this special day it's my turn to publish a new creation and I have another art journalpage for you, because I just love making journalpages.

Making art journalpages is such a lot of fun, everything is allowed, no bounderies what soever. You can write down your feelings and paint/ draw on top of it or you just make a nice page using a lovely image.

At first I created a background using my Dylusions ink and Dutch Doobadoo stencils.

The stencils I used are flowers, diamonds, stars and screen of stars. After that I did a little stamping using a script stamp.

The image is by the East Wind (check them out if you don't know them yet, they have some wonderful images) printed in a large size on copic paper.

For the hair and eyes I used

BG01, 09, 57 and FBG2.

For the flowers and dress

YG00, 17, 23,

Y19,

YR07, 15, 16 and 23,

R05, 17, 37, 39, 46 and 59

RV0000, 02 and 06

For the skin I used

E000, 00, 11, 21 and 04

for shading I used BV00 and 100 (just very very tiny parts and eyebrows)

The copic colours go so well with my favorite Dylusions ink that I really love using them both on my pages, because both have such wonderful bright and cheery colours.

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Deborah here today with the new challenge for the Copic Marker Europe blog.

First, I would like to thank you for the beautiful entries last time, it was a pleasure to take a look at them!

The winner will be announced on friday, December 26.

Our new challenge is called:

"It's a man's world"

So create a card for a boy or a man with your fabulous Copic Markers.

And here is my inspiration for you:

My boyfriend had his birthday this month, so I had to make a special card for him. We bought a new house last year and we had to rebuild it. Every free hour he was busy with working on the house. I'm so proud on him!

The image is "Mr Fixit" by Mo Manning, her boysstamps are amazing!! The paper is from an old collection of BasicGrey "Bowties". I've addes some die-cuts from Memorybox and some screw-brads. I've kept it very simple.

Here are the colours that I've used on this one:

Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, R20

Hair: E35, E33, E50

Green: G28, YG67, YG17, YG13, YG11

Blue trousers: W7, B37, B34, B32

Warm grey: N9, W7, W5, W3, W1

Cold grey: C7, C5, C3, C1

Blue: BG09, BG05, BG01, BG000

Orange: YR07, YR04, Y17

Red: R59, R37, R35, R32

Brow: E37, E35, E33, E31

Background: E43, E41

So now, it's your turn! Show us your work, and you can win

3sketch markersof your choice.

Please be aware that only entries from those living in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East are possible.

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Franz from Italy again to share with you all my latest Copic project :)

I used a Saturated Canary image again, one of the latest drawn by Krista; I love her because of her hair and of the bubbles all around the image!

I started colouring skin and hair with one of my favourite brown colour combo and then I coloured up her dresses.
Then I added some accents with Prismacolor Pencils on her cheecks and here and there with a white gel pen; I love adding these accents because I think they give to the image a little more contrast and make it a little more precious too :)

I generally colour the background at the end.

Here I used my favourite tecnique that is the "Confetti Background" with lots of dots that are bigger and very close one to another near the image and smaller when you colour away from the character.

I used some different markers to achieve this result, two blues, a blue-violet and a warm grey to give the background a "dirtier" look.

I used Papers form Maja Design and I also added this lovely craft die cut from Dutch Doobadoo, love them, they makes cards special!

Thursday, December 18, 2014

I printed my image called Be Merry And Bright and coloured it with my Copics. I started with the background as always, using a very light blue. I coloured all the lights last, using three Copics each time, first colouring the inside of the light with my medium shade, then outside the light with my lightest to give the idea of lights being on, then added a touch of my darkest shade inside the light. I die cut my image with a Spellbinders Label die and I used DPs by Bo Bunny.

Background: BG000

Dog: W0, 1, 3, 5

Sentiment: E40, Y000

Lights: R32, 35, 37, Y11, 15, 17, YG01, 03, 17

Shadow: BV00

That's all from me today and since I won't see you next week, I wish you all a Merry and Bright Christmas! Hugs,

Monday, December 15, 2014

When I was a kid whenever I was asked "what do you want to do when you're grow up" my answer was "to work at Disney, coloring all those cartoon images" why do I tell you this???

Because for my first entry I decided to combine these two things I love, Cartoon images and Copic.

I used the image "Dancing and flowing" from the talented artist Sabine Rich the image looks a lot like Disney characters

For the skin I wanted to try a new combo. E50, E30, E11 and for the cast shadow I used V93.

I wanted the girl to be with presents, so I decide to color her hair with rich colors. I did the hair with flicks motion going from light to dark, with lots of flicks… (Believe me when I say LOTS of flicks)

For the dress I choose the YG family because they go together with the hair.

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Elizabeth here today to give you some inspiration for your Christmas card- coloring.

I have colored this cute Whimsy Stamps image using the no-lines technique.

I stamped the image using Memento Tofee Crunch ink, wich is light brown.

When I color the lines wont show, and it gives a soft look on the image.
Kruemel made a great tutorial on no lines coloring here on the Copic Europe blog. You can find it HERE if you want some tips on how to do it! Here's my card:

I used Maja Design papers in traditional Christmas colors, red, white and green.

Here's my image, it's named Berry, made by Sylvia Zet for Whimsy Stamps.

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Hello everyone! It's Delphine here today with another winter scene - now is really the time to make winter cards!

I have used one of my not so recent Penny Black stamps called Snowy & Hedgy. I stamped and masked my image, added a couple masks to create the hills and airbrushed the background. I then coloured my scene and thought I would add a frame inspired by a number of cards I have seen recently. I cut a rectangle with a die, stamped a CC Designs sentiment on it and put it on foam squares.

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Hello everyone! It's Delphine here today to share a tutorial on a 100% Copic card with a simple airbrushed background - I absolutely love the look of airbrushed backgrounds!

For today's example, I chose to do a simple winter scene with a character and just a couple of trees. Please note, I did not stamp and mask the character on my scene because I knew I wanted to add it at the end on 3D foam squares, but it is of course possible to stamp it at the beginning.

Material used for my card:
Airbrush and Copics

Masking Film or Post It notes

Make It Crafty Pine Trees Rubber stamps

Gorjuss Girl

Step 1

Stamp the elements you need on your scene, starting with what you want to be in the foreground first. To mask, I used Post It Label Pads which have 100% adhesive backs, and picked different colours to show you clearly the different parts of the scene.

Here, I stamped the little tree first where I wanted it, masked it (yellow), then I added orange strips around my "scene" to have an uncoloured frame at the end. I then stamped the tree on the left and masked it (pink). I thought I would have a little snow slope, so I just cut and put pieces of blue Post It Notes to create the slope and protect it from the airbrushing.

Step 2

Airbrush your lightest colour B00 going from left to right and right to left from the bottom of the image and stop midway of your sky. I like using 2 different shades for airbrushed skies (here Bs and BVs) and I always start with my lightest colour, so I can darken the colour afterwards if necessary.

Step 3

Now start at the top of your image with your second shade - BV02 here - and go down little by little towards the blue area. Airbrush over the beginning of the blue part so that your colours look blended.

Step 4

Darken the sky at the top, using BV04 and stop in the BV02 area. The transition between the 2 BV areas is a bit too visible, but we will work on it in the next step:)

Step 5

Take your BV02 again and go over all the BV04 and BV02 areas starting from the top and being careful to add enough BV02 on the transition to blend it a little and airbrush on the upper part of the blue area too.

Step 6

Now remove your masks and check the result of your airbrushing. And now all you have to do is use your Copics to colour your scene.